8 Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes on Emotion

Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes on emotion

47. There is no sport in hate where all the rage Is on one side.

93. Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

138. Most musical of mourners, weep again!

141. And others came... Desires and Adorations, Winged Persuasions and veiled Destinies, Splendours, and GloOms, and glimmering Incarnations Of hopes and fears, and twilight Phantasies; And Sorrow, with her family of Sighs, And Pleasure, blind with tears, led by the gleam Of her own dying smile instead of eyes, Came in slow pomp; - the moving pomp might seem Like pageantry of mist on an autumnal stream.

142. Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year.

150. He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain.

157. Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

161. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.